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At an astonishing young age edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror and heartache of her native haiti-and the enduring strength of haiti's women-with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bears witness to her people's suffering and courage. At the age of 12, Sophie Caco i... more »s sent from her impoverished village of Croix de Rosets to NY, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child ahould ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to haiti-to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence in a novel that bares witness to the traditions, suffereing and wisdom of an entire people.« less